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NUMBER OF SLOT MACHINES AND LOCATIONS IN ITALY YEAR 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
AWP locations No. of AWPs VLT locations 49,724 51,169 52,194 54,166 58,472
249,641 256,252 255,559 261,186 263,198
4,390 4,452 4,614 4,708 4,918
No. of VLTs 54,484 54,701 55,772 55,968 57,938
NUMBER OF OTHER GAMES AND LOCATIONS IN ITALY YEAR
No. of Bingo Halls
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
is generated by just 20 provinces, including Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, and Naples, whilst other locations are unprepared if hordes of people de- scend. Tis happened in early 2025 when 200 tour buses and an extra 10,000 day-trippers de- scended on a small mountain village of Roccaraso in Abruzzo after Neapolitan TikToker Rita de Crescenzo posted footage from the ski resort. Te impromptu tourists, mostly from nearby
Naples, overwhelmed the town of about 1,500 residents with traffic, litter, and chaos. Anti-tourism activists have been campaigning
in Florence, arguing that mass tourism is hiking up housing prices and altering the fabric of their city. It is said that average monthly rental prices increased by 42 per cent between 2016 and 2023 and the number of short-term rentals doubled to 14,000 properties in 2023. At the end of 2023, Florence became the first
city in Italy to ban new short-term rental properties in the historic centre, whilst tax incentives were offered to landlords who changed their properties from short-term to standard leases. Other changes in Italy include a national da- tabase of short-term rentals so all holiday rentals
184 186 191 196 198
No. of PoS - No. games/ totalisator
34,610 34,875 33,775 32,174 31,829
have an identification code, whilst lockboxes and remote check-ins are banned. Rome has 25,000 short-term rental properties listed on platforms. Some beaches in Sardinia introduced a cap on
the number of daily visitors, and some even require booking in advance, and Venice has a €5 entrance fee for day visitors. In 2021, Italy also announced large cruise ships
would be banned from entering Venice whilst rail links were improved and a new airport, the Salerno Costa d’Amalfi, opened in 2024 to handle up to six million passengers annually by 2043 and provide more direct access to this region, and help with the overcrowding issues at other airports. It is Italy’s 39th airport with six domestic, seven
international flights, and seven charters currently, with a new passenger terminal to be opened this year, boosting facilities and flights.
THE GAMBLING MARKET Te Italian gambling market is one of the most complex and yet dynamic in Europe and has a history spanning centuries. Gambling has been legal in Italy since 1948, which provided operators
No. of PoS - No. of PoS - horse racing sports betting games
5,921 6,022 5,387 5,717 6,683
9,320 9,447 9,329 9,648 10,061
with a licence to operate, and the Legislative Decree No. 496 basically became the first piece of gambling legislation. Te national gambling authority, Agenzia della
Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM), regulates the in- dustry, and this falls under the Ministry of State Autonomous Monopolies (AAMS). It is responsible for issuing licences, monitoring gaming services, collecting gaming taxes, and tackling illegal gamb- ling. Gambling is divided into two categories. Land-
based gambling covers terrestrial casinos, AWPs, VLTs, sports and horse race betting, pool betting, bingo and the lotteries and lotto whilst online gambling covers sports and horse race betting, pool betting, virtual and live betting, slots, roulette and other casino games, poker, card games, games of skill, poker tournaments, bingo, betting exchange and online lotteries. Te market has seen numerous legislative
changes over the years, and recently, there was a process of a ‘regulatory split’ between remote and landbased gambling. Te process is based on the tax delegation law of 2023 and was implemented via the Legislative
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